5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching L__C_

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What the remaining words have in common

20 matching words2 not previously used5 past answers

Position 2A 40%E 30%U 15%I 5%
Position 3N 25%A 15%U 15%C 10%
Position 5H 75%Y 10%E 5%O 5%

Possible answers

LANCE LATCH LEACH LEECH LUNCH LURCH LYNCH

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Primary objective: finish in the turns you have left

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Set your guesses left, add the feedback you already have, and explore what each next guess could reveal. This planner starts with L__C_ as your green-letter clues.

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These alternatives optimize how evenly one guess splits the answers. The planner above prioritizes finishing within your remaining turns.

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Shortlist note

How to play this shortlist

This pattern has 20 words in the Wordle guess list; 7 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 7 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: LANCE (February 26, 2026); LATCH (May 5, 2026); LEACH (December 1, 2025); LEECH (August 23, 2024); LUNCH (January 15, 2024).

Top-ranked splitter ABUNE
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
2.81 bits

It is a deliberate probe rather than a possible answer here: the point is to separate the remaining answers cleanly.

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ABUNE does not fit this page's clues. LANCE keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.29 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

No obvious one-slot trap. The possible answers do not form a three-word-or-larger family that differs in only one position.

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What fits L__C_?

All 20 matching words are shown above. 7 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

H 75% A 55% E 35% U 30% N 25% Y 15%

Words with five different letters

85% of the matches have no repeated letters.

LANCE LATCH LEACH LUNCH LURCH

Common letter pairs

CH 15/20 words (75%) LA 8/20 words (40%) LE 6/20 words (30%) NC 5/20 words (25%) AC 4/20 words (20%)

Vowels

No vowels: 5% · one: 45% · two: 45% · three or more: 5%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match L__C_?
20 five-letter words match L__C_ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 7 are possible answers.